SWANAGE  , a watering-

place and seaport in the eastern parliamentary division of Dorsetshire, England, 9 M . S.S.W. from Bournemouth by sea, and 132 M . S.W. by W. from London by the London & South-Western railway . Pop. of urban district (1901), 3408 . It lies on the picturesque Swanage Bay, on the east coast of the so-called Isle of Purbeck, the district lying south of Poole Harbour . The coast is wild and precipitous, and numerous caves occur in the cliffs . Inland are open, high-lying downs . Swanage Bay has a beautiful sandy beach affording excellent bathing . In the town, the church 1870, p . 430) from a single specimen in the Museum of Pelting, should be removed from the sub-family Cygninae . Of C. coscoroba Mr Gibson remarks (Ibis, 188o, pp . 36, 37) that its " note is a loud trumpet-call," and that it swims with " the neck curved and the wings raised after the true swan model." t Commonly quoted as Oud en nieuw Oast Indien (Amsterdam, 1726) .

The, incidents of the voyage are related in Deel iii . Hoofdst. iv . (which has for its

title Description of Banda), pp . 68–71 . of St Mary has a massive tower possibly of pre-Norman date; 26 other churches and ro mission rooms belonging to the Church there are a town-hall, an institute with library and lecture hall, of England, besides 2 Roman Catholic churches, a synagogue and memorials to a victory gained by King Alfred over the and 84 Nonconformist chapels (31 Welsh and 53 English) and Danes in the bay in 877, and to Albert, Prince Consort . A 20 mission rooms, but all are modern buildings . There are large export trade is carried on in stone from the Purbeck 9 ecclesiastical parishes and parts of two or three others, all in the quarries. diocese of St Davids .